When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.